Lewiston-Auburn, Maine has begun the race to find a young entrepreneur. Not just anyone, though. They are on the lookout for someone with a connection to their community that is interested in building there. There are a few catches, of course: you have to be willing to locate that business in Lewiston-Auburn, Maine’s second largest […]
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The Nashville Business Journal is reporting that the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development is now accepting entries into their “What Makes You an Entrepreneur” video competition. Entries will be accepted through Oct. 31 through the Tennessee Open for Business website, http://tnopenforbusiness.org. Finalists will be selected from five categories: Main Street/downtown; home-based; agri-business; arts
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VentureBeat reports that startups with business and financial tools should check their calendar for Aug. 16. That’s when Intuit, the maker of popular financial software like QuickBooks and Quicken, will be holding its second annual Entrepreneur Day, where it invites startups to its Mountain View, Calif., campus to meet with executives and discuss business partnerships.
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MOO.com, a custom business card printer, is offering free business card redesigns for 500 small businesses. To apply for MOO’s Business Card Project, submit a existing business card online and fill out a short application, including a 100-word essay about why your card needs a redesign. Entries will be accepted until August 31, 2010.
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This design was one of 38 gold medal winnners at the 2010 International Design Excellence Awards. Can you figure out what it does? I’ll give you a hint, it’s called the OneDown. Put your guess in the comments and I’ll reveal the correct answer on Friday. Photo by DSK ISD International School of Design.
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Like most kids Jared Mann enjoys playing with bubble wrap. Thanks in part to his ingenuity and the Bubble Wrap Competition for Young Inventor’s, Jared is also the creator of an energy-saving device made using bubble wrap. Jared was awarded second place in the Bubble Wrap Competition for Young Inventor’s, and received a $5,000 savings
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BatchBlue Software, provider of the BatchBook social CRM (customer relationship manager) for small businesses and entrepreneurs, today began accepting nominations for its third annual Small Business Super Hero contest, which celebrates companies that are making great products, providing excellent service and are champions for their clients and their community. The competition, which is running simultaneously
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According to ReadWriteWeb it’s known as the marshmallow challenge. Small teams are given 18 minutes to build a free-standing structure made of dry spaghetti, one yard of string, one yard of tape and a marshmallow, which must be placed on top. The team wins by creating the tallest structure of all the groups participating. What
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TCBY is offering entrepreneurs the chance to own their own TCBY with a store giveaway worth more than $300,000. With the unemployment rate sitting just below 10 percent, this could be an opportunity for a business minded individual to help stimulate their local economy. The national contest is open to all U.S. residents over the
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Jean-Jacques Velkeniers lives in Belgium and since he was a little boy he wanted to go into space. Now that Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is selling seats on their spaceship for rides into space for only $200,000, Jean-Jacques can finally go. There’s only one problem: he doesn’t have $200 grand. But proving that the entrepreneurial
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